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PUBLIC ENEMIES: Americas Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34by Burrough, Bryan
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Book DescriptionNew York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin Pr, 2004. Very tight, very clean copy, undamaged pages and hard covers, very tight spine. Clean, bright dust jacket, no tears.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good-fine. Book summaryJournalist Bryan Burrough, grandson of an FBI agent, details the spread of both a new type of crime and a new type of crime-catcher in the early 1930s. The socioeconomic conditions in the U.S. during the Great Depression facilitated the rise in flashy, bloody crime sprees across state lines, committed by limelight-seeking perpetrators such as Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Prior to this point, there was no organization with the jurisdiction to pursue interstate criminals. In response, J. Edgar Hoover was given the mandate to create one: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which sought (and achieved) its own celebrity status as it hunted down America's most notorious criminals. PUBLIC ENEMIES was named a 2004 New York Times Notable Book.Media Reviews"...[B]rims with vivid portraiture. His Dillinger is haunting....The portrait of J. Edgar Hoover is even more compelling....PUBLIC ENEMIES is excellent true crime....[S]tirring." -- Mark Costello, New York Times Book Review "Iconoclastic and fascinating. A genuine treat for true-crime buffs, and for anyone interested in the New Deal era." (starred review) -- Kirkus "...Mr. Burrough displays a genius for historical reconstruction and an attention to detail so vivid that the reader can almost smell Bonnie and Clyde." -- Edward Lazarus, New York Times "It makes a good tale, and Burrough tells it well, in all its horrible detail." -- Paul Johnson, Literary Review "[T]he definitive account of the 1930s crime wave that brought notorious criminals like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to America's front pages....[T]he book compellingly brings back to life people and times distorted in the popular imagination by hagiographic bureau memoirs and Hollywood." (starred review) -- Publishers Weekly "Bryan Burrough has unearthed a wealth of data on the exploits of the American desperadoes of the 1930s, and on the inner workings of a government bureaucracy in its infancy....PUBLIC ENEMIES is a guidebook for grown-ups, and in many ways a definitive history." -- Federico Varese, Times Literary Supplement Publisher NotesAn analysis of Depression-era bank robbery and its most notorious figures recounts the stories of such individuals as Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, and Baby Face Nelson, discussing the factors that influenced the period's crime rates, the formation and early work of the FBI, and the contributions of J. Edgar Hoover. Other Recommended Books
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